
“Colonel Johns… looked across at Bond.
‘[It’s] one of the new Savage 99Fs, Weatherby 6-by-62 scope, five-shot repeater with twenty rounds of high-velocity .250-3000. Lightest big-game lever-action on the market. Only six and a half pounds. It belongs to a friend… won’t miss it if it doesn’t turn up. It’s been tested and it’s okay up to five hundred [meters]…. Single-pull, and it’s a hair-trigger. Keep your finger off until you’re sure you’ve got him. And keep outside three hundred if you can. I guess these men are pretty good themselves. Don’t get too close.’ …
His other hand went to Bond’s shoulder. ‘Our Commissioner’s got a motto: Never send a man where you can send a bullet… So long, Commander.'”
–Ian Fleming, “For Your Eyes Only,” 1959.




— “Malvolio” in comments to That Ain’t Any Kind of Concession Speech I Ever Heard Of